whakaauau

Maori

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *paka-qasu (compare with Tongan fakaʻahu, Samoan fāʻasu), from Proto-Oceanic *paka-qasu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paka-qasu (compare with Cebuano paaso, Tagalog paasuhan) affixed of *qasu (compare with Cebuano aso, Tagalog aso);[1][2] also reanalyzable as whaka- + au “smoke” in reduplication.

Verb

whakaauau (passive whakaauautia)

  1. to smoke

See also

  • whakaauahi

References

  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “qahu.2”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
  2. ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (1998) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 1: Material Culture, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, page 158

Etymology 2

whaka- + reduplication of auau (“ro recur, to repeat”)

Verb

whakaauau (passive whakaauautia)

  1. to modulate

Further reading

  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “au”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 4
  • “whakaauau” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
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